The Final Blow (Air Inter Flight 148) Mayday : Season 9 Episode 7
TV-14 National Geographic 45m int(0)
Aired: October 20th, 2010 @ 8:00 PM EST on National Geographic
On 20 January 1992, Air Inter Flight 148 flies into a peak in the Vosges Mountains while circling to land at Strasbourg Airport, killing 87 people. An error made in programing the aircraft's autopilot, combined with a sudden wind change, caused it to descend more rapidly than expected.